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We’ve all been guilty of saying there aren’t enough hours in the day, yet some days we get so much done we’re on a high, while others we feel as though we’re wading through knee deep mud. Why the difference? It’s not the hours in the day, it’s how we use those hours. How engaged we are, how focused we’ve been and how well we’ve managed our distractions. Email, phone calls, meetings that overrun and people at our desk can suck as much as two hours out of our work day, rapidly derailing our productivity and job satisfaction and leading us to add more hours to the day to catch up.

A question that comes up often as I speak to people about leadership and developing their ‘people skills’ is whether it’s possible to progress your career and still be liked.

To be fair, it’s a question almost exclusively on the lips of women. Not all women I hasten to add. Some women are so focused on their career trajectory that pausing to reflect on whether they’re liked or not would be deemed totally unnecessary!

While I don’t believe you need to choose between the two, I do think it matters which of the two you focus on cultivating.

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